Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Overview  
        5.1     Physical layer management mechanisms         
 6     OAM communications channel        
        6.1     Requirements on the physical media dependent (PMD) layer for the bit-oriented clear embedded operations channel (EOC)    
        6.2     Requirements on the PMD layer for the message-oriented clear EOC  
        6.3     Data link layer              
        6.4     The SNMP protocol   
 7     Management information base (MIB) elements       
        7.1     Failures           
        7.2     Performance monitoring functions     
        7.3     Configuration functions           
        7.4     Inventory information              
        7.5     Test, diagnostic and status parameters             
        7.6     Network management elements partitioning 
Appendix I – Processing examples    
        I.1     Illustration of transmitter processing  
        I.2     Illustration of receiver processing         
Appendix II – Downstream power back-off    
       II.1     Introduction  
       II.2     Description of the DPBO method          
Bibliography